Guild Wars 2

Can the AGGRO mechanic be anymore BROKEN?

In COF random time, I get all the aggro in Path 2 even I don’t attack at all. I ran away from the group fight and leashed them okay fine. I ran back… all turns around and face me again.

REALLY? I didn’t even hit them.

What kitten me off is that, they constant toss me around like a volleyball, hammer stun me down. I can’t do anything. I used up all 3 stun break constantly for every CC on me. Then died.

Are there no DIMINISHING RETURN ON CC AT ALL?

This is beyond dumb mechanic!

YES I’ve READ -> http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Aggro

The thing is BROKEN! Not working as intended. I’m an Ele, I dont’ even have high HP or high Toughness..

This is not making any senses but to make the player out of control in combat.

Game that leads player out of control = BAD!

That is one creepy looking.

You’re not alone.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1cplu5/is_it_just_me_or_is_gw2_really_laggy_right_now/

High DPS / Hybrid

10 / 30 / 0 / 20 / 10

http://imgur.com/a/mcn5T

Fight 1
7,518 Crit by Dragon’s Tooth
5,921 Crit by Phoenix
6,167 Crit by Phoenix
5,082 Crit by Phoenix
11,844 Crit by Fire Grab
14,176 Crit by Churning Earth

Fight 2
5,877 Crit by Dragon’s Tooth
5,764 Crit by Dragon’s Tooth
4,149 Crit by Phoenix
15,434 Crit by Churning Earth
11,928 Crit by Churning Earth
4,680 Crit by Lightning Strike

Let me know if you are interested…

http://imgur.com/a/mcn5T

Nice write up, that pretty much sum up about mine Ele play style. You had the same build I’ve been using for months.

I’m partially agree with traitline that without Arcana, Ele is a little harder to maintain the survivability. Ele is powered up on boons and boons are very precious during the combat. Vigor boons is critical for Ele and I almost can’t leave without having 10 points in Arcana for Renewing Stamina.

CallousEye.5018:

I’ve been thinking of a similar build, but you’re expecting to stack might in melee range from the description.

If you’re going to be in melee range, why not use dagger/dagger?

Style of play matters, I prefer some CC abilities blinding targets for a bit more survival. Scepter is actually very powerful in burst and the Lightning Arc hits anything over 4k+ on each target.

I don’t think you want to D/D on some bosses.

Dragon Tooth + Ring of Fire → Might
Phoenix + Ring of Fire → Might
Earth Att. Dodge + Ring of Fire → Might
Earthquake + Ring of Fire → Might
Beginning of Churning Earth + Ring of Fire → Might

If you’re quick to do all those combos before the Ring of Fire expires… count how many mights I can get during combat with Scepter vs Dagger.

My full collection is here:

http://imgur.com/a/sSZwQ

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1bo0xq/high_end_damage_and_survivability_elementalist_sd/

Did you ever dream about a perfect build for almost anything? Yes here it is! I want to share my build that I have been running around for the past few months. I’ve tested many builds since BWE#1, Either it hits pretty high damage but lack of survivability or the other way around which is a runner up Bunker build with 2k toughness blablabla.

Whisper in-game “Stormïe” if you have question. (The letter i is Alt+139)

While having SLI mode enabled. The temporary fix I did was going into the Manage 3D Settings → Program Settings → Gw2.exe → SLI rendering mode to Single-GPU.

For now it works but there are some weird textures clipping randomly.

Having the SLI completely disable across the board works fine but I don’t want to toggle that everytime for every games. That is just annoying.

The game itself crashed back to the desktop. It looks like the game is bugged out. With SLI enabled now.

310.90 driver used to work with my GTX680 SLI cards before Feb and March patch.

The reason I found out now because I just got my RMA card back from EVGA. I was playing on Single Card for 1.5 months.

Driver crash can be reproduce in Super Adventure box Zone 1.

On both Windows 7 and Windows 8. Same on 310.90 driver.

314.07 and 314.22 with SLI enabled. Game crashed or freeze with white flickering artifact over the model and terrains.

GPUs are at 50-60’C at the start of the game and both GPU are very stable on other high end games.

Going back to 310.xx now. Stay tune.

Are you guys on Windows 8?

I just received my second GTX680 back from EVGA RMA. I’ve tested each card alone on GW2. There are no issues, but when I put them in SLI. I crashed black screen after login into the game.

I am using 314.22 or 314.07, both the same problem.

I’m an Ele… no greatsword. This is stupid, I don’t want to be like Mesmer.

This is getting terrible… I am having a hard time to get a group. This is stupid, I’m a DPS Ele with high vit and high dmg. I’ve done 10min group run.

I just don’t see why people are so nitpicking. Path one needs a buff. All the trashes cannot be skipped so this requires profession CC and special skills to counter these trashes.

I have to warn everyone about this website:

Please look over the reddit GuildWars. This person is pulling information on other website and claim the content unethically from the original gw2lfg.com.

Again, .NET, don’t use and if you do, you are at your own risk.

Read up all the story here: http://www.reddit.com/comments/1a666h/gw2lfgnet_faster_more_mobile_devices_autoupdate/

This is important.

Soul.6572:

DJRiful.3749:

Connection Lag is unrelated to low FPS. ( We don’t call FPS lag but Shutter or drop FPS ). If you are lagging on skills, there is nothing we can do, blame your ISP, or someone is streaming on your network.

Have you been playing recently? I suggest you go check out the dragon fights, since the latest patch many old users have started playing again, and those fights are having so much server wide lag.

Most of the dragon fights during primetime you can’t even do anything except autoattack.

There is the issue of what we call low fps, but that’s more related to the amount of players on the screen and the cpu bound coding.

But all the skill lag during dragon fights is simply a problem on Anets end because their servers can’t handle that many players in one area.

You surely must have heard of the new dragons’ nicknames: Tequatl the lagger, claw of jorlag, the lagger etc.

Have you been staying on topic in this thread? He has been experiencing lag since the beginning and he thought it was his graphic setting. So he decided to lower it and it still doesn’t fix it. (duh).

Am I late to reply for the OP?

Stock setting is consider normal at that ~45FPS. If you want 60FPS average, it is best to OC your CPU past 4.5Ghz+ for full performances.

CFX/SLI vs Single only gives 10-15FPS differences, FYI.

Joric.5376:

@A-Net
Please fix the current lag issues. Playing 1280×800 with everything set to none/lowest/off and I still experience massive lag even in PvE areas with very low population (read: only me and a few mobs there).

You can’t actively play that way in the means, that you can’t avoid damage, can’t use your skills properly and so on.

Add in the culling issues —> it’s really terrible. C’mon – 5 years of development, an ultra-long beta-test and like 6 months after release we are talking about the basics here?

Sorry if that sounds a bit harsh, but it is really THAT BAD.

Connection Lag is unrelated to low FPS. ( We don’t call FPS lag but Shutter or drop FPS ). If you are lagging on skills, there is nothing we can do, blame your ISP, or someone is streaming on your network.

This is funny, MMO is massive multiplayer online. If you look at SWTOR, people complains about the game is simply just Single Player and in the end there are nothing or some CO-OP events. Now here, people complain about too many players and requires teamplaying.

I mean really… “Save yourself”

Shahotinaro.9250:

Just a heads up, that was fixed with the latest patch. Link is now Purple and Suffix doesn’t change.

Thank you!, I’ve been itching to transmute and I was afraid that it will mess up the whole legendary authentic.

As the title said, these merchandise will be a HOT selling product if available. I wanted to buy these gifts for people not just in game.

Also, yes we are missing in-game gift system as well… something must have like Steam Powered.

marc.6380:

dont take Nvidia 670

have only had alot crashed and so on with it…
Drivers not working
Freezes ( screen turns red or blue and so on have to push restart )
can only run the game on low grafic

every other game your gonna play with Nvidia 670 is working

but hey maybe im just unlucky…

You’re just unlucky.

@OP go with the best bang for the buck performance. GW2 is mostly CPU bound. So going for a higher price cards won’t matter much on GW2 performances UNLESS you’re planning to run other games than GW2.

Fort Asp. server is now taking place.

My server is bugged. If anyone can offer me a server uncontested, I would be grateful.

Hi, any new updates?

Stormcrow.7513:

That is no excuse. Being CPU bound doesn’t mean everyone has to deal with poor performance. I shouldn’t have to have a 3930k OC to 4.8 like yours to get good frames, that is just ridiculous.
Crysis 3 is also NOT totally GPU bound. Crysis 3 uses hyperthreading very efficiently.
The point was that Crysis 3 is supposed to be(at ultra settings) very demanding on computers. GW2 at low settings in a zerg will be demanding no matter what your pc is.
Your PC DJRiful is probably over $3000 to build(or more). Is this the market that GW2 is aiming for? Does the average user need to have a 3k system OC to almost 5ghz to play many of GW2’s features?
The engine is broken, anyone who denies this is just a fanboi defending anet at this point. The numbers don’t lie..

You’re comparing to MMO vs a single / MP map games that doesn’t really needs to load multiple 100+ players on your screen.

Try to have 100 players on the map in Crysis 3, then we’ll talk.

Fuzzion.2504:

OP is right. Other games , even intensive dx11 crysis 2 runs smoothly vs gw2

GW2 is CPU bound games, not GPU unlike other games. NOW stop comparing to Crysis 3 which is totally bound on GPU power. Online review in result different FPS on different CPU because the CPU was the bottleneck for multi-GPU. Having a high end will lift the bottleneck that allow the GPU to run at its maximum capability.

GW2 on the other hand its’ not. It is entirely limited by your CPU.

The faster clock of your CPU the better with 2 cores or more. CPU like mine I can run GW2 smoothly and removing VSync, i can hit 100FPS+ in some area. Here I recorded at 120FPS… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0kdHJhXQUA

Turning SLI on and off only gives 10FPS differences in GW2 performances, this is clearly a CPU bound game.

I tested with CPU stock clock 3.8Ghz -> 30-40FPS in LA
CPU 4.8Ghz -> 55-60FPS LA (Vsync on)

There is indeed performance issues with AMD CPUs. There is nothing we can do at this point but for a better CPU.

pihkal.8650:

I’m running two EVGA GTX 680 SuperClocked cards SLI. After upgrading my drivers from 310.90 to 314.07, I started to get frequent driver crashes (black screens) and my first ever BSOD running Windows 8.

Thankfully, I was able to revert to the 310.90 drivers and Guild Wars is working fine again.

Windows was able to recover from the driver crashes, but they were happening so frequently, the game was unplayable. The BSOD happened while I was working on something else with the GW2 client running in the background.

Windows 8 gives loads of BSOD on overclocked system. More frequent than Windows 7.

This is why I switch right back to Windows 7 after trying out Windows 8 for a month. I got sick of BSOD. It’s insane.

I’ve been back to Windows 7 for 2 months. No BSOD and same overclock and drivers.

After many tests by isolating each card. The issue is my second GTX680 hardware memory causes the problems… A bad card.

My system is all stock. It is still doing it.

This problem have been occurring since BETA of Guild Wars 2 with many different version of NVIDIA Drivers from 3xx.xx to 314.xx.

I suspect this is a game bug? It is behind my User Interface not over my screen.

My system have ran many over 150 different games including today high end games such as Far Cry 3, Crysis 3, Witcher 2 and etc. I have never seen these kind of glitches…

What is up ArenaNet?

VIDEO: http://youtu.be/GK-17dz1hJ4

I’ve attached a still shot for better look at the square dots. It has a weird pattern.

System Spec:

Core i7 3970K
2GB GTX 680 SLI (Driver 314.xx)
16GB DDR3 RAM
256GB Vertex 4 SSD
5TB HDDs
HX750W Corsair (Gold up to 900W)

It happens on the others conjured weapons as well not just the Greatsword. I am disappointed but lucky that Sigil didn’t cost me an arm or leg.

Sorry to resurrect an old post but I just ran some test, I realize the boons only works on your main healing skill… not your water attunements abilities.

This is so misleading! Waste of 6 gold. " when using a healing skill" I have a lot of healing skill and none of them works except our own primary heal skill. Why?

I highly recommend you to get the Avast! Free Antivirus over MSE. MSE isn’t doing good at the moment. You can read more about it on the web, MSE is very very basic.

Avast is excellent, lightweight and gamer mode feature just like few other AV that has it as well but Avast is by far the most stable solid AV.

I’ve been gaming on any games with Avast! Free for months and now in 2013, I ended up buying Avast Internet Security to support them.

They already mention the nerf down to 5 targets maximum.
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Upcoming AoE skill balancing (nerf)
One of the issues brought up a lot in WvW./sPvP is AoE (Area of Effect). We feel like they are too strong at the moment and a lot of people in WvW are gaming the system using AoEs.
For people that don’t know – max targets for siege weapons is 50 while max targets for AoE is 5.
Reducing AoE effectiveness to bring them in line with the single target damage skills.
Major update coming to all the AoE skills – make classes that are good at single target damage stand out a bit more.
Same thing with dungeons – right now if you have a lot of AoE you can past encounters by just spamming AoE which is not what we want.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/16rsh9/jan_17_dev_livestream_summary/

This might help, http://imgur.com/a/AIYTs

I’m only between 1.375v and 1.400v @ 4.7Ghz

Idle 30’C
High 65’C

If you really want to push, you should look for notebook with i7-36xx to i7-38xx (min- quad cores with decent speed).

Is your GPU in the second PCI-E slot? If so, please install on the first slot (primary).

16-17GB download.

There is something wrong with your system OS settings. Processes?

I’ve built my friend a system spec below:

i5 3570k @ STOCK
AMD 2GB HD6970 @ STOCK
16GB RAM @ STOCK
128GB SDD

He can run GW2 in Automatic setting for 40-50FPS (~45FPS average) and everything on his system is stock without overclocking. His resolution is at 2560 × 1440p.

Hence, you have it overclocked, a more powerful GPU and at 1080p stuck at 20FPS. There is definitely something wrong.

This is just to point that people don’t post about CPU bottleneck or whatsoever.

Here is my look, like a sir.

no. 7 days cooldown

Change your password asap and don’t use the same password on another other account you have.

Nice but how about adjusting the price on the materials? It is getting more and more expensive each week and I am unable to catch up with the cost.

Example only!

Jan
Total 100 X items costs 60g

Feb 100 X items costs 80g

March 100 X items costs 110g

Really? Will I ever get to finish farming? So much grinding!

Meanwhile, our or everyone gold income from dungeons and events is approx 10g per day average, it’s not like in real world that the minimum income increases every year so does the gas.

But here is like Gas keeps going up but our income stay constant. It’s really tiring!

I’ve been farming about 4-5 hours per day since October 2012 (after I hit 80 to go after legendary).

nope, just dont use it.

Really, after the last patch or last 2 patch ago. I’ve been experiencing delay or lag on Updraft ability only. I never had issue activating it, it’s instant. But now it seems to have a 0.5 to 1 sec lag to activate it.

Not my network, my other abilities are perfectly fine except Updraft one. Which is getting a bit annoying from the delay.

Cable 10/1.5, 12ms

about 60-70ms latency to Anet servers.

I don’t have this issue with my Sensei, but it’s a good idea.